Iraq, Multiple Births and Kennedy Top the Agenda

Here’s the rundown on guests and topics for the weekend’s public-affairs programs:

Today

“John McLaughlin’s One on One”: Iraq, 1:30 p.m. (28).

“Evans & Novak”: Nizar Hamdoon, Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday 7 a.m. CNN.

“Inside Politics Weekend”: Former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, 3:30 p.m.; repeats midnight, CNN.

“Capital Gang”: Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), 4 p.m., 10:30 p.m. CNN.

“Larry King Weekend”: Howard Schultz, chairman of Starbucks Coffee Inc.; author Sally Quinn, 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., CNN.

“McLaughlin Group”: Iraq; espionage, 6:30 p.m. (4).

Sunday

“Today”: Fears and phobias; Seymour Hersh’s “Dark Side of Camelot”; “Hercules on Ice” performance; Robin Williams, 6 a.m. (4)(39)(36).

“Temas y Debates”: Republican analyst Cari Dominguez, Republican analyst Roberto de Posada, residential advisor Maria Echaveste, 7 a.m. (KMEX-TV Channel 34).

“Meet the Press”: Secretary of Defense William Cohen; Richard Butler, chairman of the U.N. special commission on Iraq; Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations Nizar Hamdoon, 7 a.m. (4)(39)(36).

“CBS News Sunday Morning”: The House of Windsor; St. Louis Symphony; 160th anniversary of the death of abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy, 7:30 a.m. (2).

“Contrapunto”: Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), 8 a.m. KVEA-TV Channel 52.

“Fox News Sunday”: Nizar Hamdoon, Iraqi ambassador to the U.N.; Bill Richardson, U.S. ambassador to the U.N.; Donna Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; Bishop McHugh of the archdiocese of Camden, N.J.; Dr. Stephen Covey, author; Laura Schlessinger, radio talk-show host, 8 a.m. (11).

“Face the Nation”: Ethics of multiple births: McCaughey septuplets’ grandfather Bob Hepworth; Dr. Robert Shaw, Blank Children’s Hospital; Dr. Mark Sauer, Columbia University; Lori Andrews, medical ethicist; Dr. Berndine Healy, CBS medical consultant, 9 a.m. (2).

“Late Edition”: Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater, 9 a.m. CNN.

“Bob Navarro’s Journal”: Author Jane Bryant Quinn; state superintendent of schools Delaine Eastin; update on unsolved kidnapping and murder of Anthony Martinez, 9:30 a.m. (2).

“This Week”: Iraqi ambassador to the U.N.; Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; Dr. Arthur Kaplan, medical ethicist, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Arthur Haney, president, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 10 a.m. (7)(42); 11 a.m. (3)(10).

“Life & Times”: Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.), 11 a.m. (28).

“Both Sides With Jesse Jackson”: Harvard professor Cornel West, former Sen. Bill Bradley, student Jana Eschbach, 2:30 p.m. CNN.

“60 Minutes”: The “so-called” Kennedy papers; Disney Chairman Michael Eisner addresses Southern Baptist boycott; what Saddam Hussein is hiding in Iraq, 7 p.m. (2).